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...begun on the movie when Liz took sick last fall.) "Shaw's life," Mankiewicz explained, "is full of letters to naive young girls, instructing them in the ways of the world. He wrote Caesar and Cleopatra as if he'd come upon Cleopatra himself in that pile of rocks. The play is a Shavian dream of intellectual omnipotence, but it has nothing to do with Caesar or Cleopatra...
...student panel, a representative from Princeton in a four-piece suit distinguished himself by reading from a staggering pile of books nearly all the world's literature on leisure. Emma Liewellyn of the Sarah Lawrence faculty was so alarmed at two panel members who said, "I don't have time for leisure," and "I feel guilty when I'm not working," that she accused them of being "little machines" and suggested bird-watching...
...role is pantomime, and must be choreographed for the benefit of lighting technicians and carpenters. Kelly will lead him through part of it ("You're walking down a street, you see a little girl, you see a bird"). Then the partners, with Gleason still in costume, pile into Jackie's turquoise and Burgundy Rolls (bar, phone, TV, refrigerator, stereo hi fi, air conditioning) and hunt photogenic cemeteries because Gigot is supposed to love funerals...
...Starr got blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board-in a pool of mercury or (Dr. Starr's choice) on a foot-thick pile of nylon blankets...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, which requires full disclosure of a company's prospects when it floats stock, realizes that this rule has been powerless to check some of the worst speculation. It has issued new restrictions to check advertising by investment advisers suggesting that previous recommendations made a pile of money for their clients, or that they have an infallible formula for beating the market. Sample advice from an ad in the New York Times last week: "Because these low-priced stocks are known only to a few-because they have tremendous future promise-the risk involved has often been...